He was inside Jabba the Hut in “Return of the Jedi,” helped make “The Muppets” come alive and has been pulling the strings on Yoda since he was 19 years old. Meet Dave Barclay, the puppet master, builder and animatronic supervisor responsible for some of your favorite characters on film and TV. He started his career as an assistant puppeteer for Yoda in “The Empire Strikes Back” under legendary puppeteer Frank Oz. Today, he’s the chief puppeteer responsible for Jabba the Hut, taking your favorite “Star Wars” characters from words on a page to a galaxy far, far away.

Holidays are becoming too commercial, it's true. However, it’s good to see that some traditions never change, such as people enjoying some festivity-related porn searches. It was May the Fourth (Star Wars Day) last Friday, and many celebrated such a blessed day by, in Luke’s own words, keeping "it on manual control for a while.”

To give an insight into the porn habits of the Jedi and Sith of our galaxy, Pornhub has released its Star Wars-related data. On May 4, 2017, the website registered an increase of 1,043 percent in Star Wars-related searches compared to the daily average. Yoda is wrong – size appears to matter. And we can totally judge.

Among the searched terms that had a surge, we find various iterations of the franchise title plus words such as "sex", "lesbian", "porn", "anal", "xxx", and "parody". "Princess Leia" and "Princess Leia" slave also received a boost. Surprisingly, the search term that got the biggest boost was "lightsaber", with a whopping 766 percent increase above the daily average. Clearly, the phallic metaphor of the lightsabers persists.

Farewell to Tom Wolfe, the impeccably attired author and early practitioner of groundbreaking "New Journalism" of the 1960s, as he died on Monday in a Manhattan hospital.

Wolfe, widely regarded as one of the top American journalists of the 20th century, focused his keen eye and explosive writing style on subjects from the Merry Pranksters to the early days of the space race before turning to fiction.

His best-selling books included non-fiction like "The Right Stuff," his riveting account of America's first astronauts, and fiction like "The Bonfire of the Vanities" — his scathing satire of New York City in the '80s.

As federal crimes go, this one seems to have been ridiculously easy to pull off. Dushaun Henderson-Spruce submitted a U.S. Postal Service change of address form on Oct. 26, 2017, according to court documents. He requested changing a corporation's mailing address from an address in Atlanta to the address of his apartment on Chicago's North Side.

If you've been to a seafood restaurant or market, you probably saw a tank full of live lobsters, waiting to be eaten. Some places even let you pick out the lobsters you want to eat. But why are lobsters boiled alive and not other animals like pigs or chickens? The answer may surprise you, and it's more than just about the taste.

Back in 1982, a group of young Star Wars fans trekked into the California desert to crash the outdoor set of Return of the Jedi, and this seven-minute video of scenes from the Sail Barge, featuring Luke Skywalker, R2-D2, Slave Leia and Boba Fett, was the result.